Last evening we met at Susanne's house for our first book club of the new reading year. Our book for September was At Home In Mitford by Jan Karon. What a delightful book was the belief held by most of those that attended. One of our ladies couldn't finish it and couldn't wait to give it away. Another said that she didn't like it that his prayers were always answered with a 'yes', Dooley came home and so did Barnabas. But when I talked with her further and I said " life is hard, and I need to go to a place like Mitford to get a glimmer of heaven", she agreed.
Susanne made Esther Cunningham's Orange Marmalade cake. It was really good. It was like a pound cake with yummy filing and frosting. Susanne read to us that when Jan wrote these books she made up the cake. It was pure fiction but as she wrote more and got out in the public more the question she got more than any other was What is the recipe for the Orange Marmalade Cake??!! So the folks at Victoria magazine got a chef and came up with the recipe for the books. I never knew. Susanne also had Little Debbie cakes for those who didn't want Orange Marmalade, because Father Tim loved his Little Debbie cakes.
Sandy shared with us about the gospel side of the church at Mitford. The gospel is the right side because of the readings done during the services in the Episcopal Church and which side they are done from in the front of the church.
Evelyn liked that Miss Sadie was not bitter with all that had happened to her.Evelyn also loved Uncle Billy's jokes. In fact, she was ready to move to Mitford. KimT liked the variety of the characters.
KimT has a sister who loves these books, no LOVES these books and knew she did when she asked for prayer for Father Tim in her prayer book because he had become so real to her
We had about 25 in attendance and only about half had read this before.
Corrie shared that the only grandmother that she knew, who is now dead, loved these books and Corrie enjoyed reading what she knew her grandmother loved.
If you weren't there, you were missed. Next book is The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig. Happy Reading.
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2 comments:
Oh i am so so jealous. I have always wanted to have a good book club. I read christian fiction usually before going to bed but it is hard to find decent christian fiction- i just prefer it since it is clean and usually encouraging.
highly recommend for your bookclub- songbird, a nest of sparrows, beneath the southern sky. all three are really good.
hope all is well in little rock. i had fun seeing taylor and andrew a couple weeks ago!
I made the blog! Woo-hoo!
Also, I keep meaning to send you this... this is what I imagined the marmalade cake to be like... http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/07/yogurt-marmalade-cake-to-die-for/
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